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"First thing we see was Juno trotting towards us, and she looked up and

whined, and then trotted back to a place where it was plain enough, noe knew, a great bit of the side had caved down andhard, and as fast as she scratched the more

sand come down

"I looked, at Old Brownsmith's brother, and he looked at me, and we

jumped out, slipped off our coats and weskits, took a shovel apiece, and

began to throw the sand away

"My head was all of a buzz, for every shovelful I threw out I see of yne

"Then, one by one, eight men come up, and we set 'eer, you know, stops us after a bit

"`This is no use!' he says; `we're only burying of 'e down from the top as soon as

ever we made a bit of space below, and twice over so!' and we had to run back to keep froht up to the chest once

"`There's hundreds o' tons loose,' says the old--the ganger, you know;

`and we shall never get in that way' He stopped to think, but it an digging again,